I went to school in Red Hook on W. 9th St. in the early 90s (which is the other part of 9th St that runs thru Park Slope). All that construction around the projects is due to all the years of industrial usage in the area and they found the ground contaminated with metals and other things. We had summer school at PS 15 which the principle was Patrick Daly who was killed in the projects after looking for a missing student. It was a very rough area at the time, and still can be.... Thanks for the walk! :)
wow I never been in that part of red hook with that Nice water view a great scene, I wonder if they would ever put some kind of affordable housing over there by the water front, it seems peaceful, when you get pass the NYCHA red hook buildings
I just happened to find your walk through & it brought me many memories of RED HOOK , I lived there many years especially on Dikeman st. Thanks for your time !!
Our daughter lives in Red Hook next to Coffey park and we were there the same time you made this video. 😀 You passed by Defonte's Sandwich Shop. They make really good ones. 👌
I was down here about eight years ago already, drove around, had been up in Williamsburg, then came down here, bought music, whatever. I had lunch that day at the taco trucks at the Red Hook Playground, then I somehow stumbled onto this building about five blocks north of there, which is a combo. art gallery and artists workspace (rental) building, a converted warehouse, of course. They invited me in to tour it, fed me pizza, LOL and I saw some interesting art installation which was a room or two of time lapse photos under lucite blocks that ran along the mid walls of the gallery, of the Brooklyn Bridge. Very cool stuff. I didn't get to De Fonte's Sandwiches, but i hear that place is just phenomenal. Next time I get to Brooklyn I'm going there. Also there's Free Bird Books here, which I haven't been to. The food in Red Hook is generally really good nowadays. It's a totally different vibe by now. Red Hook was totally dangerous and scary in the 50s-80s, now it's a whole other situation. It's becoming all gentrified. I once lived in 1997-99 in Downtown Bklyn off Flatbush Ave., ext., and also north Park Slope. Even then those areas were changing drastically.
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I went to school in Red Hook on W. 9th St. in the early 90s (which is the other part of 9th St that runs thru Park Slope). All that construction around the projects is due to all the years of industrial usage in the area and they found the ground contaminated with metals and other things. We had summer school at PS 15 which the principle was Patrick Daly who was killed in the projects after looking for a missing student. It was a very rough area at the time, and still can be.... Thanks for the walk! :)
Great info. Thanks. 👍💯
Columbia street is where I’m from Water Front ,Red Hook ,to the PJS 🔥🔥🔥🔥 it used to be off the hook back in the days there
Thanks for going to all these places where most people wouldn't. I'm learning a lot about areas I've never been to.
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wow I never been in that part of red hook with that Nice water view a great scene, I wonder if they would ever put some kind of affordable housing over there by the water front, it seems peaceful, when you get pass the NYCHA red hook buildings
I just happened to find your walk through & it brought me many memories of RED HOOK , I lived there many years especially on Dikeman st. Thanks for your time !!
Glad you enjoyed it👍🏻👟👟
Yah...sure woke me up...Thanks for that!! Ending your walk along water is always a plus. Enjoyed this walk...Thank you!!
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Great walk, great to watch. always interesting commentary. Thank you.
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That's a very isolated and remote neighborhood. Great walk!
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Our daughter lives in Red Hook next to Coffey park and we were there the same time you made this video. 😀 You passed by Defonte's Sandwich Shop. They make really good ones. 👌
Cool stuff. Great to hear. 👍👍 I will have to check it out. 💯
I was down here about eight years ago already, drove around, had been up in Williamsburg, then came down here, bought music, whatever. I had lunch that day at the taco trucks
at the Red Hook Playground, then I somehow stumbled onto this building about five blocks north of there, which is a combo. art gallery and artists workspace (rental) building,
a converted warehouse, of course. They invited me in to tour it, fed me pizza, LOL and I saw some interesting art installation which was a room or two of time lapse photos
under lucite blocks that ran along the mid walls of the gallery, of the Brooklyn Bridge. Very cool stuff. I didn't get to De Fonte's Sandwiches, but i hear that place is just
phenomenal. Next time I get to Brooklyn I'm going there. Also there's Free Bird Books here, which I haven't been to. The food in Red Hook is generally really good nowadays.
It's a totally different vibe by now. Red Hook was totally dangerous and scary in the 50s-80s, now it's a whole other situation. It's becoming all gentrified. I once
lived in 1997-99 in Downtown Bklyn off Flatbush Ave., ext., and also north Park Slope. Even then those areas were changing drastically.
Good stuff!
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Very interesting. Never seen Red Hook before. Have heard alot of bad things about it. 😂
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